I am sending this for your
information.[1] These are very
interesting things. I think the Ukrainian Communists are
wrong. The conclusion to be drawn from the facts is not
against a tax, but for intensified military measures for the
total annihilation of Makhno, etc.

Lenin

Notes

[1]A reference to a telegram received by the People’s Commissariat
for Food on March 2, 1921, reporting great difficulties in the
work of the Ukraine’s food bodies due to raids by Makhno’s bands.
The telegram said that in these circumstances supplying Donbas
and the Red Army “becomes an almost insoluble task” (Central
Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the
C.P.S.U. Central Committee).